First it was the telegram, then the typewriter.

首先是电报，后来又轮到了打字机。

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I sat in my dad’s study and plunked out my first “novel” on a manual typewriter when I was eight.

八岁那年，我坐在父亲的书房里，在那台人工打字机上敲出了自己的第一部“小说”。

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Many people got their first look at the telephone, typewriter, X-ray and even the ice cream cone at an expo or fair.

很多人都是在博览会或交易会上第一次见到电话、打字机、X光，甚至冰激淋蛋卷。

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The last one to be made in a factory in Britain rolled off a production line in Wrexham - 183 years after a machine was patented as the first typewriter.

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One of his first successes: IBM's Model B electric typewriter (a precursor to the Selectric).

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New technologies, such as the typewriter, allowed many women to support themselves financially for the first time, and many flocked to the cities.

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